Re: [PATCH 2/2] atomic: move atomic_add_unless to generic code

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 16:21:37 EST


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:10, Arun Sharma wrote:
> This is in preparation for more generic atomic
> primitives based on __atomic_add_unless.

i think you might have to have those primitives in place before this
patch makes sense. the only thing this does is hoist a single
comparison out of arch atomic.h's and into linux/atomic.h. this
savings alone looks simply like over engineering to me.
-mike
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